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About Jacques Picard
- Jacques Picard (July 5, 1828 – June 6, 1905) was a notary and political figure in Quebec.
- He represented Richmond-Wolfe from 1867 to 1890 and Wolfe from 1890 to 1892 as a Conservative member in the Legislative Assembly of Quebec. He was born in Sainte-Élisabeth, Lower Canada, the son of Jacques Picard and Thérèse Lebeau.
- Picard was educated at the Collège de l'Assomption and the Séminaire de Joliette.
- He qualified as a notary in 1852 and set up practice at Wotton.
- Picard was mayor of Wotton from 1860 to 1862 and registrar for Wolfe County from 1862 to 1867.
- He was also a justice of the peace, a lieutenant-colonel in the militia and served as a member of the school board and president of the Agricultural Society. Picard was reelected to the Quebec assembly in 1871, 1875, 1878, 1881 and 1886 in Richmond-Wolfe and then in Wolfe in 1890 after the riding was split.
- In 1873, Picard married Orpha Généreux.
- He retired from politics in 1892 and became deputy minister of Agriculture.
- In 1896, Picard was named crown lands agent at Sherbrooke.
- He died in Wotton at the age of 76. His grandson Jacques Miquelon and his great grandson André Bourbeau also served in the Quebec assembly.
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